Sergio Venturini

Young Jorgelina feels estranged from her boy-crazy older sister, who has entered adolescence and doesn't want to hang around with little kids anymore. Finding refuge in their Boyita camper-van, Jorgelina travels with her father to the countryside, where her lifelong playmate Mario is undergoing some unexpected changes.

José Manuel Ortiz, 32, has had a great interest and sensitivity towards music since he was very young. He grows up listening to the anecdotes of his great-grandfather Carlos Amable Ortiz who was the first academic musician in Ecuador. After the death of Carlos Amable Ortiz, his fame begins to fade, but his 237 scores have managed to survive time. Upon recovering the works, José Manuel's interest in studying and deepening the music found is awakened.

Elena comes back to Ecuador to help her father overcome his illness. She spends most of her time between drugs and alcohol. While visiting her grandpa in the Andes Elena gets involved in the fight for water access in an indigenous community. She gradually understands that among family secrets, corruption and dark perversions commitment and beauty can emerge.

Inside a theater of a shopping center, several actors rehearse a new play. A recognized actor with delusions of greatness and vanity, faces his decay, making the rehearsals unbearable.

A world like ours, limited by language.

In the process of creating a collective documentary with an intimate and artisanal gaze, Afro-descendant and Indigenous youth of the Chocó Rainforest in Esmeraldas, become inspired by their elders’ life stories and ongoing defense of territory and denounce a common experience of marginalization and contamination of their rivers.

Miguel is a 17 year-old boy that sees the future as a distant horizon, immersed in his bubble of friends and a sketchbook full of sentimental poems. 'Saudade' is the portrait of a threshold: the end of high school, which we experience through Miguel. Set amidst the backdrop of the Ecuadorian economic crisis of 1999, 'Saudade' tackles notions of economic dislocation, friendship, family and young love while juxtaposing the crumbling of Miguel's life, against the crumbling of his country.

Vicenta, Marilín, Luisa, Victoria and eight other Venezuelan peasant women decided to become economically independent and form Mubay, an organic fertilizer producing cooperative. With the collaboration of different members of the community, they have managed to sustain production, overcoming numerous social and cultural obstacles. Their new challenge is to obtain their own rustic transportation that will allow them to keep production on track, without depending on the favors of neighbors. This search will detonate threats around them that could destroy the project that has kept them together for so long.

A strange character has been seen passing through the streets of Quito with a medical bag in hand; inside of him there is a medicine, but it is not what you imagine. It's Baltasar, a marijuana dealer who, after running out of harvest, turns to two eccentric old men. They offer you a new variety: the Ecuatorian Shetta. Baltasar begins to distribute it; but the day is complicated by the arrival of his little daughter, Catalina. Together they will go through chifas, doubts about UFOs and encounters with the police.

Puerto Madryn, famous for the whales that come to its shores, making it a focus of international ecotourism, is also home to one of the largest aluminum factories in Latin America—and the only one in Argentina. What is the daily life of a town grateful for the "progress" that came with aluminum, yet at the same time, it knows it is inexorably poisoned by the air it breathes?

In the suburbs of Tokyo, away from the chaos and noise of the city, is the Café de Kinema. As if they were into a movie theater, out of time and space, people take refuge in their own silence while the melodies of Nino Rota get lost in the smoke of their cigarettes.

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